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they will, with all the freshness of unassisted 

 nature, annually delight the eye of the lover of 

 flowers those beautiful gifts of an ever-bene- 

 ficent Creator ; and may I not add, that the con- 

 templative mind will see in these lovely pendant 

 roses the great charms of humility and gratitude 

 they seek to 'abase' themselves, and their 

 beauty is ' exalted ; ' they receive from the earth 

 all their benefits, and endeavour to cover and 

 adorn her with their luxuriance. 



DECORATED CLIMBING EOSES. 



A strange term, for can a rose-tree be deco- 

 rated? Yes, and I must at once tell how it 

 has been done with these Evergreen Roses the 

 most vigorous and the most tractable of rose- 

 stocks and how it may be easily practised. 



A few years since, a friend living at Wey- 

 cliffe, near Guildford, found the heavily built brick 

 bridge leading over the railway to his house (this 

 is, however, in his grounds, so as to be private), 

 conspicuously ugly, and he wished it to be hidden 

 by evergreen climbing plants. As the car- 

 riage-road ran over the bridge, the gravel, of 

 which it was made, did not seem to offer very 

 happy quarters for any plant but ivy, which was 

 objected to as being too heavy. I then proposed 

 planting it with varieties of Rosa sempervirens, 

 or, as we ought always to call them, Evergreen 



